Ben Street - Mark Rothko seeing Red

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  • čas přidán 11. 06. 2019
  • Im Rahmen unserer Modern & Contemporary Gesprächsreihe ist im Mai der Kunsthistoriker und Autor Ben Street mit einem Vortrag zu Mark Rothko zu Gast. Die verschiedenen Rottöne in den Bildern von Mark Rothko wirken stärker auf die BetrachterInnen als jede andere in seinen Kompositionen verwendete Farbe. Sie sind abwechselnd instinktiv, emotional und erhaben. Der Vortrag „Seeing Red“ beleuchtet Rothkos Rottöne - ihre Quellen, ihre Variationen und ihre Wirkungen - um die besondere Bedeutung dieser Farbe in seinem Werk auszuloten.
    Ben Street ist Kunsthistoriker und Autor und lebt in London. Er unterrichtet moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst in den Master-Lehrveranstaltungen von Christie’s Education und hält Vorträge an verschiedenen Museen und Galerien in London.
    Der Vortrag wird auf Englisch gehalten.
    rothko.khm.at/
    www.khm.at/

Komentáře • 50

  • @k8marlowe
    @k8marlowe Před rokem +17

    Experiencing Rothko’s works in person (alone and with no time constraints) has steadily, over the last decade, climbed its way toward the very top of my bucket-list.

    • @makestardawggreatagain
      @makestardawggreatagain Před rokem

      I’m from uk and I’m so excited to see his murals at the Tate ,

    • @keeperofthecheese
      @keeperofthecheese Před 6 měsíci +1

      I saw some of his work at the Tate and it is overpowering. It grabs you by the shoulders, and asks you to interpret it. It looms over you. It is stern and it has no horizon - you stare into a deep distance. They are definitely better experienced alone, but its very hard to achieve that.

    • @k8marlowe
      @k8marlowe Před 6 měsíci

      @@keeperofthecheese that sounds incredible. Thank you for describing the experience so beautifully.

  • @maxnorth7922
    @maxnorth7922 Před rokem +3

    Amazing expert with excellent lecture. I highly recommend this informative interpretation of Mark Rothko's arts. Superb!!!

  • @chibicibi6034
    @chibicibi6034 Před 2 lety +9

    a really great lecture, loved listening to it!

  • @wentiantann
    @wentiantann Před měsícem

    Thank you for the intellectual words… so rare

  • @jethrojackson9226
    @jethrojackson9226 Před 2 lety +16

    Highly recommend this lecture it’s so informative. Ben handles the pace and information to let us understand his thoughts and ideas.

    • @georgem5589
      @georgem5589 Před rokem

      No, let us have our own unique thoughts and ideas. Rothko is the most overrated artist ever.

    • @jamesdude8399
      @jamesdude8399 Před rokem

      The general public don’t like Rothko. Warhol is far more ‘overrated’.

  • @robtennapel78
    @robtennapel78 Před 2 lety +7

    Great speaker

  • @aephraums
    @aephraums Před 2 lety +7

    Excellent Lecture, the references of influence on Rotho and his influence over others and the evolution of that influence through the 20th and 21 century, just so brilliant and expressed in a lecture that was about color and immersion and sensation. I truly enjoyed it and understood it and made me want to see it for myself.

  • @thewaythingsare8158
    @thewaythingsare8158 Před 3 lety +18

    Rothko would never have approved of the artificial lighting with spots, which has completely deadened them in the Tate. They were more alive and the forms floated and glowed with inner light when originally installed with natural light filtered from above back in the 70's

  • @KeenyNewton
    @KeenyNewton Před 4 lety +17

    This is an absolute amazing introduction to understanding Rothko, understanding Red.

  • @JumeoniArt
    @JumeoniArt Před 2 lety +2

    Thank you 👏👍🏻😊

  • @marcuslee2186
    @marcuslee2186 Před rokem +3

    This guy is such an expressive talker. Very engaging

  • @4TUNECHINGSAN
    @4TUNECHINGSAN Před 2 lety +9

    Very impressive speech!! Many thanks!

  • @keeperofthecheese
    @keeperofthecheese Před 6 měsíci

    Very good lecture. Good pace. Good content. Well done.

  • @davidcarter8874
    @davidcarter8874 Před 5 měsíci

    Stellar lecture. Well done 👍

  • @bibis9986
    @bibis9986 Před rokem +1

    Great lecture!

  • @perrybarr6507
    @perrybarr6507 Před 10 měsíci +1

    We all experience art in different ways and react to it on a very personal level. I love Rothko and would love to see some of those still in the USA. I enjoyed the lecture, seeing someone’s perspective on Rothko’s work and particularly being introduced to the work of Barnett Newman . I have just been doing some research into his series Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue and am so shocked to learn about all the destruction wreaked on this artist’s work and the terrible conservation attempt on one of them by a so called expert. Art is supposed to be one of life’s joys, a spiritual experience, we see what we see and if it makes our heart move then surely - on some level - the art has achieved some kind of objective. Sad to see some really negative comments about the lecture and the person giving it, but that’s the internet for you I guess. I enjoyed the lecture and I learned more about another artist I was completely unfamiliar with, so I am happy. I love that CZcams gives me access to lectures, art in its widest form, art restoration and conservation, art history that otherwise I might not have the time to engage with. Over the last few weeks I have been able to engage with lectures on Vermeer, Rembrandt, Rothko and now Barnett Newman…Wow!

  • @jicasso9848
    @jicasso9848 Před rokem

    Amazing. Amazing lecture.

  • @riggers1977
    @riggers1977 Před 2 lety +8

    I always find that trying to explain a Rothko is futile. Everyone gets their own thing from these paintings & I think that’s what he intended.

    • @ben-km6uu
      @ben-km6uu Před rokem +2

      I agree. I don't think you understand Rothko through thinking about him, simply on feeling his work emotionally.

    • @EnglishFuture-xg1gw
      @EnglishFuture-xg1gw Před rokem +1

      spot in

  • @steveb2145
    @steveb2145 Před 8 měsíci

    superb insight

  • @angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl

    Beautiful

  • @EnglishFuture-xg1gw
    @EnglishFuture-xg1gw Před rokem

    Everything red has to do with Rothko clearly. Bunkham I say. Spurious connections.

  • @Johnconno
    @Johnconno Před rokem

    When Rothko was asked such a stupid question, do you think he'd bother engaging? His comments on the paintings for The Four Seasons restaurant are hilarious.

  • @beingnothingness2475
    @beingnothingness2475 Před 2 lety +5

    I think Ben's presentation is much better than Christopher Rothko's one, a bit sad for Chris...

    • @4TUNECHINGSAN
      @4TUNECHINGSAN Před 2 lety +2

      Totally agree!! It seens that Ben feel the paintings, rather than Chris...

    • @EnglishFuture-xg1gw
      @EnglishFuture-xg1gw Před rokem

      Chris' content is far far better.

  • @theimmaculated6480
    @theimmaculated6480 Před 5 lety +5

    What book is that he’s holding?

    • @garyofthegary
      @garyofthegary Před 5 lety +8

      Hi Dennis... it's Josef Albers 'Interaction of Colour' - sorry not to make that clear.

    • @yobyhenthorn7813
      @yobyhenthorn7813 Před 4 lety

      Thanks, Ben.

  • @kk-tc9fh
    @kk-tc9fh Před 5 lety +2

    Bitte bedenken Sie, dass ein staatliches Museum einen Bildungsauftrag gegenüber allen hat, und nicht nur gegenüber den Kosmopoliten unter uns. Deswegen sollten deutsche Untertitel eigentlich eine Selbstverständlichkeit sein.
    Ansonsten: Toller Vortrag. Danke dafür!

    • @cainandabel7059
      @cainandabel7059 Před 3 lety +1

      Eine Sprache ist doch schon schlimm genug. Warum nach noch mehr verlangen?

  • @spiralmoment
    @spiralmoment Před rokem +2

    if you have to watch youtube tutorials and copy technique, you really missed the entire point of abstract painting. Seriously, I suggest, instead of doing this, study some art history and read some philosophy and whatever you find interesting and drop some acid. This advice still stands if you're a bored middle-aged house wife which you probably are, if you're watching this.

  • @georgem5589
    @georgem5589 Před rokem +2

    I watched a video hoping to understand and love Rothko. Too big a leap, my opinion that it's a scam just got stronger. Now CZcams keeps suggesting every Rothko analysis video to me. Ugh. Please stop CZcams. I don't like Rothko and the insufferable opinions of Rothko fans that keep looking inward as opposed to actually looking at a Rothko and calling out the truth. The emperor has no clothes.

  • @MPHORROCKS
    @MPHORROCKS Před 2 lety +3

    I love paintings but it takes a certain voice/tone to discuss and inform on art. To me, he sounds rather irritating and a bit smug IMHO.

  • @davidpelzer2404
    @davidpelzer2404 Před 10 měsíci +2

    I think Rothko is overhyped and overrated. If there weren't these people around making their living by injecting meaning and monetary value into these stained canvases, the "work" would end up in the dust bin of history, where it belongs. Because Rothko was a notorious alcoholic you can imagine where these images come from. Vibration in lines of colour is nothing new to art as it occurs throughout the whole of a picture of a work by any of the old masters while depicting mimesis that actually has meaning.

  • @pixels2u
    @pixels2u Před rokem +3

    He seems pretty impressed with his own vacuous ramblings. Art people are mostly insufferable. Trying to define Rothko is so pointless - just experience the work without explaining it. Feel it - that's all you need. And that is plenty.

    • @bt4086
      @bt4086 Před rokem

      If you were paying attention, you would realise that he agreed with you.

  • @jamesdavidsmith4033
    @jamesdavidsmith4033 Před rokem +1

    This pompous speaker would cause Rothko to puke.